A Screening of “Pride & Basketball” and conversation with filmmaker Cinnamon Spear Bozeman, MT –
Hopa Mountain, a Bozeman-based nonprofit organization, will hosta screening of “Pride & Basketball” along with a conversation with filmmaker Cinnamon Spear on Thursday evening, October 19 at 6 p.m. in the Emerson Cultural Center’s Weaver Room. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.
This event is free of charge and is offered in cooperation with Indigenous Peoples Day events in Bozeman. On the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, basketball is more than a game. It is a lifestyle. This film explores the interesting and serious dynamic between high school basketball and warriorism for the young men in the community of Lame Deer, Montana. Created by Cinnamon Spear, Northern Cheyenne, “Pride & Basketball” is the first film of its kind. Told from the perspective of current players, past greats, and community members, it is the only basketball documentary produced and directed by a filmmaker born to the reservation.
Cinnamon Spear is a beadwork artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her art provides a true representation of her people and personal history. She is the first Lame Deer High School student to attend Dartmouth College and earn a Masters degree. Cinnamon returned to her home community to complete her master’s thesis, which became the 32 minute documentary titled “Pride & Basketball”. Cinnamon is also a writer whose poetry, fiction, and narratives have been published in a number of anthologies. Hopa Mountain invests in rural and tribal citizen leaders, adults and youth, that are working to improve education, ecological health, and economic development (www.hopamountain.org).
For more information, please call 586-2455 or email: info@hopamountain.org.
